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Expanded Homicide Data Table 5

Murder

Age of Victim by Age of Offender, 2017

[Single victim/single offender]

Age of victim Total Age of offender
Under 18 18 and over Unknown
Total 6,902 318 6,307 277
Under 18 543 85 450 8
18 and over 6,307 228 5,815 264
Unknown 52 5 42 5
  • NOTE: This table is based on incidents where some information about the offender is known by law enforcement; therefore, when the offender age, sex, and race are all reported as unknown, these data are excluded from the table.